Spain

Rural Catalans, who are legally organized under a quasi-municipal
government called the Decentralized Municipal Entity, approved a tax
resistance motion that would have people in Catalonia redirect their
federal taxes to the Catalan regional government. The federal government
took them to court for this, but
the court ruled that the non-binding motion of advocacy was “political speech”
and was within the Entity’s authority.

El Confidencial, however, has
declared the campaign a failure,
claiming that fewer than 1,500 people have begun redirecting their federal
taxes in this way so far, a much lower figure than the movement had hoped
for at this stage.

Austria

Sales tax refuseniks in Salzburg, motivated by disgust at bank bailouts, have won the applause of their neighbors, but have had a hard time making their resistance stick. The government froze Wolfgang Reichl’s bank account until he paid taxes and penalties, for instance, but he vowed to resist again.

Germany

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